scholarly journals The East Asian Erotic Picture Dataset and Gender Differences in Response to Opposite-Sex Erotic Stimuli in Chinese College Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianqian Cui ◽  
Zixiang Wang ◽  
Ziyuan Zhang ◽  
Yansong Li
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Sexual Arousal ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Attractiveness ◽  
Sexual Stimuli ◽  
Erotic Stimuli ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Asian People ◽  
Stimulus Materials

Understanding the processing of sexual stimuli has become a significant part of research on human sexuality. In addition to individual characteristics (gender and sexual orientation), empirical studies have shown that cultural factors play an important role in sexual stimuli processing. The attitudes toward sex have been reported to be more conservative in East Asian societies as compared to western countries, and significantly more sexual difficulties are observed among East Asian people. However, stimulus materials, which potentially facilitate human sexuality research on native East Asian people, are relatively not satisfactory. Erotic stimuli depicting East Asian figures are limited in the existing picture datasets. To address this issue, we present a collection of 237 erotic and 108 control pictures, accompanied by self-reported ratings of sexual arousal, pleasantness, and sexual attractiveness for opposite-sex erotic stimuli by heterosexual males and females (n = 40, divided into two equal-sized subsamples). This collection is divided into six categories, depending on their contents: dressed males (44), semi-nude males (65), nude males (64), dressed females (64), semi-nude females (52), and nude females (56). We showed gender differences in sexual arousal, pleasantness, and sexual attractiveness ratings in response to opposite-sex erotic pictures. Males reported the highest levels of sexual arousal, pleasantness, and sexual attractiveness for nude female pictures, whereas females reported the highest levels of sexual arousal, pleasantness, and sexual attractiveness for semi-nude male pictures. The erotic picture dataset may provide a useful resource of erotic stimuli that can be used as stimulus materials in experimental research on sexual function in East Asians.

The East Asian erotic picture dataset and gender differences in response to opposite-sex erotic stimuli in Chinese college students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianqian Cui ◽  
Ziyuan Zhang ◽  
Yansong Li
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Sexual Arousal ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Attractiveness ◽  
Sexual Stimuli ◽  
Erotic Stimuli ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Asian People ◽  
Stimulus Materials

Understanding the processing of sexual stimuli has become a significant part of research on human sexuality. In addition to individual characteristics (gender and sexual orientation), empirical studies have shown that cultural factors play an important role in sexual stimuli processing. The attitudes toward sex have been reported to be more conservative in East Asian societies as compared to western countries, and significantly more sexual difficulties are observed among East Asian people. However, stimulus materials which potentially facilitate human sexuality research on native East Asian people are relatively not satisfactory. Erotic stimuli depicting East Asian figures are limited in the existing picture datasets. To address this issue, we present a collection of 237 erotic and 108 control pictures, accompanied by self-reported ratings of sexual arousal, pleasantness and sexual attractiveness for opposite-sex erotic stimuli by heterosexual males and females (n = 40, divided into two equal-sized subsamples). This collection is divided into six categories, depending on their content: non-erotic male (44), low-erotic male (65), high-erotic male (64), non-erotic female (64), low-erotic female (52) and high-erotic female (56). We showed gender differences in sexual arousal, pleasantness and sexual attractiveness ratings in response to opposite-sex erotic pictures. Males reported the highest levels of sexual arousal, pleasantness and sexual attractiveness for high-erotic female pictures, whereas females reported the highest levels of sexual arousal, pleasantness and sexual attractiveness for low-erotic male pictures. The erotic picture dataset may provide a useful resource of erotic stimuli that can be used as stimulus materials in experimental research on sexual function in East Asians.

Androgens Modulate Brain Responses to Sexual Stimuli in Female-to-Male Transsexuals

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-98
Author(s):  
Zheng Ye ◽  
Bahram Mohammadi ◽  
Robert Kopyciok ◽  
Marcus Heldmann ◽  
Amir Samii ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Arousal ◽  
Hormonal Treatment ◽  
Functional Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Sexual Stimuli ◽  
Erotic Stimuli ◽  
Brain Functions ◽  
Brain Responses ◽  
Subcortical Regions ◽  
The Brain

Abstract. Interpersonal and intrapersonal differences in brain responses to sexual stimuli have been linked with individuals’ testosterone levels. However, it remains unclear how hormones modulate brain functions underlying sexual arousal. In order to assess the effects of chronic hormonal treatment, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging in a group of female-to-male transsexuals before and during androgen therapy while they watched a set of pictures representing dressed or nude (erotic content) men or women (sex information). A broad network of cortical and subcortical regions were activated during the processing of erotic stimuli (nude vs. dressed), including the insula, amygdala, and hypothalamus. The insula activity in response to erotic male stimuli decreased over the initial 4 months of hormonal therapy. In the following 8 months, the insula response to erotic female stimuli increased. In other words, long-term androgen administration makes the brain more “male” by reducing the sexual arousal caused by male stimuli and amplifying that caused by female stimuli.

Individual Differences in Masturbation and Erotica Consumption Predicting Levels of Sexual Concordance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Hutchings
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Sexual Arousal ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Sexual History ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Erotic Stimuli ◽  
Subjective Sexual Arousal ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Audiovisual Stimuli

Concordance is not the only aspect of sexuality where significant gender differences are observable: men masturbate significantly more than women (Oliver & Hyde, 1993; Petersen & Hyde, 2011). There are also large gender differences in pornography consumption and consumption patterns (Hald, 2006). The study of concordance is important as it could assist in the further development of models of sexual response, and potentially reveal the role of gender differences in those models. Evidence suggests that the cognitive system one uses to process stimuli can affect one's subjective sexual arousal (Dove & Wiederman, 2000). Greater erotica consumption habits could lead to a better familiarity with the erotic stimuli used during the testing protocol, and this decreased novelty could produce more accurate responses for subjective sexual arousal. Using a "bottom-up" cognitive model in which people use physical sensations to infer emotional states, it is likely that increased sexual experience will lead to higher levels of concordance. Opposite-sex attracted participants (24 men and 25 women) will view a series of audiovisual stimuli depicting heterosexual sexual acts and neutral subjects. Participants will answer a series of questionnaires about their sexual history and attitudes, and will answer questions on their level of sexual arousal before and after each stimulus. Participants will continuously report their levels of subjective sexual arousal while simultaneously their genital responses, heart rate and skin conductance will be recorded. It is important to further our understanding of how much impact a participant's previous exposure to erotica, and masturbation behaviours to that erotica, have on their concordance rates; given the increasing pervasiveness and accessibility of erotica, this may prove extremely relevant to future  nvestigations

scholarly journals Gender Differences in Implicit Processing of Sexual Stimuli

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke Dewitte
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Sexual Response ◽  
Implicit Processing ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Avoidance Motivation ◽  
Sexual Information ◽  
Sexual Stimuli ◽  
Elaborative Processing ◽  
Sexually Explicit

The present studies investigated whether men and women differ in cognitive–motivational processing of sexual stimuli in order to better understand the commonly observed gender differences in sexual outcome variables. Because these processes often operate without conscious control, we focused specifically on automatic stimulus processing. Using a series of implicit tasks, we measured inhibition, attentional orientation, appraisal and approach–avoidance motivation regarding sexually explicit stimuli in male and female students. Results showed that men were more strongly motivated to approach sexual stimuli than women and were better able to inhibit sexual information as to prevent activation of the sexual response. With regard to attentional orientation, men were more easily drawn by sexual cues than women, yet only when the cues were presented long enough to allow more elaborative processing. No gender differences were found in the implicit evaluation of sexual information, although men and women did differ at the level of self–reported sexual evaluations. Our results indicate the importance of incorporating information–processing mechanisms and emotion regulation strategies into the conceptualization of the sexual response and promote further research on the specificity, robustness, predictive validity and malleability of the cognitive–motivational processes underlying sexual arousal. Copyright © 2015 European Association of Personality Psychology

Gender-specific genital and subjective sexual arousal to prepotent sexual stimuli in androphilic men and gynephilic women

2021 ◽  
pp. e20210004
Author(s):  
Nina Micanovic ◽  
Amanda D. Timmers ◽  
Meredith L. Chivers
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Arousal ◽  
Specific Pattern ◽  
Sexual Response ◽  
Sex Characteristics ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Specific Response ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Sexual Stimuli ◽  
Subjective Sexual Arousal ◽  
Gender Specific

Marked differences have been found in men’s and women’s sexual response patterns, contingent upon their sexual orientation; androphilic (attracted to men) and gynephilic (attracted to women) men demonstrate greatest genital and self-reported arousal to their preferred stimulus type (a “gender-specific” response), whereas androphilic women do not, and findings for gynephilic women have been mixed. While there have been many investigations into gynephilic men’s and androphilic women’s (i.e., heterosexual men/women) sexual response, there has been less investigation into the specificity of sexual response of androphilic men and gynephilic women. Given the complex nature of sexual stimuli that are used in sexual response research, it is often unclear to what extent contextual cues (e.g., cues other than the sexual actor’s primary and secondary sex characteristics, such as physical attractiveness, sexual activity, etc.) influence participants’ sexual response patterns. As such, the current study examined genital, discrete self-reported, and continuous self-reported responses of androphilic men ( n = 22) and gynephilic women ( n = 10) to prepotent sexual features (stimuli thought to elicit automatic sexual arousal: erect penises and exposed vulvas), non-prepotent sexual features (flaccid penises and pubic triangles) and neutral stimuli (clothed men and women). Both samples exhibited a gender-specific pattern of genital, self-reported, and continuous self-reported sexual arousal. Similarly, all measures of sexual arousal were generally found to be greatest to “prepotent” sexual cues. Implications for understanding gender specificity of sexual response are discussed.

scholarly journals Sexual Dysfunction in Chronically Medicated Male Inpatients With Schizophrenia: Prevalence, Risk Factors, Clinical Manifestations, and Response to Sexual Arousal

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianying Liu ◽  
Shaohua Liu ◽  
Meihong Xiu ◽  
Hongdong Deng ◽  
Huiyun Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sexual Dysfunction ◽  
Sexual Arousal ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Common Symptom ◽  
Erotic Stimuli ◽  
Negative Factor ◽  
Male Patients

BackgroundSexual dysfunction is a common symptom in patients with schizophrenia, especially in chronically medicated patients. However, the relationship between sexual dysfunction and emotional response to sexual arousal in male patients with schizophrenia remains unclear. This study aimed to assess the incidence, risk factors of sexual dysfunction in males, and their clinical correlations to sexual arousal in male patients with schizophrenia in China.MethodsA total of 162 male patients, aged 18–50 years, with schizophrenia were recruited from a psychiatric hospital in Ganzhou. The clinical symptoms were assessed by the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). The Arizona Sexual Experience Scale was utilized to evaluate sexual dysfunction. Erotic images were selected from International Affective Picture System (IAPS). Sixty-eight out of the 162 subjects completed the erotic pictures reactivity task.ResultsOverall, 48 (29.6%) patients were measured as having global sexual dysfunction, 72 (44.4%) patients as having strength of sex drive dysfunction, 51 (31.5%) patients as having sexual arousal dysfunction, 55 (34.0%) patients as having penile erection dysfunction, 60 (37.0%) patients as having reached orgasm dysfunction, and 60 (37.0%) patients as having satisfaction with orgasm dysfunction. The sexual dysfunction patients had significantly higher scores on the negative symptoms of the PANSS. The only important predictor of sexual dysfunction was the severity of PANSS negative factor. The sense of pleasure and arousal post viewing erotic images in the sexual dysfunction group were lower compared to the non-sexual dysfunction group. The sense of pleasure and approach motivation were significantly negatively correlated with the severity of sexual dysfunction.ConclusionsThis study shows that nearly one-third of young and middle-aged chronically medicated male inpatients with schizophrenia suffer from sexual dysfunction. The negative factor of the PANSS can be regarded as the risk factor of sexual dysfunction. Schizophrenia patients with sexual dysfunction experienced lower pleasure and higher avoidance motivation than non-sexual dysfunction patients when exposed to erotic stimuli.

scholarly journals THE YASUKUNI SHRINE PROBLEM IN THE EAST ASIAN CONTEXT: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN MODERN JAPAN

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-251
Author(s):  
Okuyama Michiaki
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
War Criminals ◽  
Chinese Official ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Yasukuni Shrine ◽  
Asian People

The problem of issues surrounding Yasukuni Shrine is one of the main topics in religion and politics in contemporary Japan. This paper tries to approach the Yasukuni Shrine problem, first by contextualizing this problem in the East Asian settings, then by reviewing the recent court cases surrounding Yasukuni Shrine, and finally by commenting on two documentary films focusing on this problem. Examining the reactions by the Chinese government to the visits paid by Japanese politicians since the mid-1970s shows that these visits, to the place where the class A war criminals are enshrined, has been regarded in the Chinese official view as offensive to the victims of the aggressive wars of Japan. The recent court cases targeting mainly the former Prime Minister Koizumi’s repeated visits to Yasukuni Shrine are worth special attention because they have involved Koreans and Taiwanese besides Japanese as the plaintiffs. These cases have presented constitutional points of dispute for both Japanese and other Asian people. These situations have set the backdrop of the production and screening of the documentary films, Annyong, Sayonara (2005), and Yasukuni (2007). These two films illustrate not only the current problem of Yasukuni Shrine but also the surrounding setting of this problem in East Asia.

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